Middle-class parents don't believe anymore, Japan's "happy education" bowl of poisonous chicken soup

Hello everyone, today I would like to talk to you about Japan's small promotion to the beginning of the year.

Because my family is going through it, I will use my own experience to talk about it, hoping to help people in need.

There are three kinds of elementary school in Japan, one is to enter the national junior high school, which is free of tuition, but the competition is fierce and the threshold is narrow, so we will not discuss it for the time being.

You can also enter a public junior high school divided by school district, and Japan currently has a nine-year compulsory education system (six years of elementary school and three years of junior high school), which also does not require exams, and the tuition and fees are low.

Today we are talking about the third type, taking the entrance examination to a private middle school, which is also called a middle school examination in Japan, and most Chinese in Japan will choose this one.

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Japan Private Junior High School

As for private middle schools, they are not the kind of aristocratic schools that we think we can get into by spending money, they require exams, and they will also consider the annual income and occupation of parents.

Private middle schools have won out for their multi-faceted educational environment and independent educational philosophy, and as the times change, they have also focused on learning content and instruction methods, and in recent years, more and more schools have added programming and English teaching.

When choosing a private school, it is best to match the student's personality and parents' values with the school. As for whether to choose a boys' school, a girls' school or a co-educational school, that is also a personal opinion.

During their time at the school, students have a wide range of school activities, from arts to science, sports to culture, and even model United Nations meetings to discuss human rights and national defense issues.

We will also arrange overseas training or short-term study abroad, such as going to New Zealand, Australia, Canada and other places to experience the local culture.

Although the school is expensive, the teachers and the school have the pressure to go to university, so they will be strict with the students, after all, the more people who are admitted to well-known universities, the more conducive to the school's next enrollment.

After being admitted to junior high school, high school does not need to take an exam, and is directly promoted, which weakens the sense of tension.

It is precisely because of this internal admission mechanism that the number of places for external enrollment in high schools will be greatly reduced, or the number of places for external high school enrollment will no longer be recruited at all, which is another reason why everyone is nervous about choosing to go to junior high school now.

By the time they are tested in high school, the opportunities and scope of options for students will be narrowed.

One of the more difficult things about private middle schools is that the content of the test is beyond the scope of elementary school teaching, and there are many areas of knowledge in middle school, so there is a place where this extra knowledge will teach you, and this place is called a juku in Japan, that is, a cram school.

The four major jukus that are very famous in Japan are: SAPIX, Yotsuya Otsuka, Nichinoken, Waseda ---。

SAPIX is a branch school, which is very representative, and the number of people admitted to prestigious schools is pasted on it

You can search and go to the school to see which one is right for your child.

Many families may enter the school in the second, third and fourth grades of primary school, and of course, there are not a few who enter the school in the first grade, which is nothing more than a year or two in advance, and they spend real money every month to smash it in, hoping to keep their children's competitiveness.

The tuition fee of the school depends on the grade, and the higher the monthly fee is, and even the money for each exam is calculated.

For various reasons, my eldest didn't enter the fifth grade until he was late.

If I had to do it again, I would have chosen to let her go to the school earlier, so that I wouldn't have to wait until the last two years to get too anxious, because there were more things to prepare.

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Entrance exam

There was an exam to enter the school, and we had to take the exam twice before we finally entered.

In cram school, seats are divided according to grades, with good grades in the front row and poor grades in the back, and for the first time, children feel the chain of contempt for academic performance.

In the fifth grade, the make-up time of the juku will also follow, three times a week, and the exam will be held on Saturdays. Coupled with pick-up, parents have to involve a lot of energy.

Having said so much, it is from the perspective of parents, and then enter the perspective of children to talk, and it is found that children who passively accept it still have a psychological process to truly understand the middle school experience.

When you switch from a relaxed public elementary school education to a stressful school, it is important to switch between them in a timely manner.

My baby's state at that time was, anyway, I went, and after attending the class, then my task was completed.

As everyone knows, the consolidation and practice after this is the most important, the private school teacher is generally in a hurry, how will you wait for you to absorb and master well, are home to rely on the child to learn by themselves, parental supervision, hard writing, and night battles to digest these contents.

Then when I went to the test on Saturday, I found that the 150-point questions were often scored 40 or 50 points, and the deviation value (a way of measuring grades in Japan) was very low.

And she felt that the questions were difficult, and she often couldn't finish them, and a third of the papers didn't even have time to read the questions.

My schoolboy husband couldn't bear it anymore, he was angry in front of the child, and we had a big fight in private, he complained that I didn't supervise the child's study, and I complained that he didn't let the child go to school early.

At this time, I really blamed myself, why I am not a rich person. This gives your child a variety of options.

If this continues, the parent-child relationship and the relationship between husband and wife will be greatly affected.

At this time, the children brought back a lot of brochures from private schools, and we chose a few of them and went to their briefing sessions.

At the scene, after seeing the admission requirements, I learned that some schools can choose Chinese arithmetic, English mathematics, or English Chinese instead of four exams (Chinese, arithmetic, social studies, and science).

We studied the ratio of the number of applicants to the number of students admitted on the school data, and the idea of choosing two subjects came to us at that time, because English is something we have been learning since childhood, but if you can choose two subjects, both subjects must be his strengths, and the competition is not small.

It was also found that some private schools recognize the English test scores, and you can use the English test certificate to add points, or set your English score according to the certificate level.

The so-called English test is a relatively important test in the Japanese student era, which is divided into five levels, five to three levels are equivalent to the junior high school level, quasi-two and two levels, which are equivalent to the high school level, and the quasi-first level and one level are equivalent to the university level.

For example, if you pass the English test level 2, then they will consider your English score to be 80 points, and there is no need to take the English test.

Next, hurry up and sign up, we only passed the third level in the winter of the fifth grade, and the quasi-second level exam below is another tough battle.

When I asked my husband's colleagues, the girl actually passed the second grade of the English examination, and she was also among the best in the private school.

Marveling at the excellence of other children's children and the fact that parents pay a lot, I thought that this child has to study hard from early childhood, and looked at the child at a young age with glasses, thinking that the child said that he can sometimes learn 11 o'clock at night, and I really admire it.

Therefore, while the middle school test the children, it also tests the parents. Parents should understand, inquire and prepare early.

At present, we have reduced the examination subjects to two, and the father will tutor the children in their studies, and I will monitor the progress. The child has gradually adapted to the rhythm and has paid a lot more attention to learning.

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Japan's "Kaino Education"

Through the middle school experience, I can't help but think about why Chinese families are so desperate everywhere.

Wishing for a son to become a dragon and a daughter to become a phoenix, emphasizing that one point of cultivation and one point of harvest has always been the belief engraved in the bones of Chinese.

It's not enough to ask of yourself, but you also have to extend this pursuit to the next generation.

At first, in China, I thought that Japan was happy education and quality education, but after I came, I found that children from ordinary Japanese families pursued happy education.

However, the Japanese from elite families are also the same, and in this comparison, ゆとり education (an education that was implemented in Japan from the 80s to 2010 in the world, characterized by intensive knowledge and shortened learning time) seems to have become a policy of foolishness.

In front of my house, there is a doctor couple, his eldest daughter always likes to come to my daughter to play, the year of the middle school test, she rarely comes out to play, it is estimated that she is preparing for the war at home, and later she was also admitted to a very famous private middle school.

This kid has planned his career at a young age, a doctor, a lawyer, or a policeman.

Compared with our working class, we want to send our children to a large company with a perfect welfare system as social animals, I feel that other parents have seen through the mechanism of social development, and the children of the elite class, generation after generation, continue to live a rich and social lifestyle.

Compared to the girls who write the most in kindergarten, they will be cake shop clerks and idol idols in the future, and it still feels very different.

Take a resume, the parents in the emergency contact column, which industry and which position, and the person's growth experience, the interviewer will know immediately. I used to think that this kind of interview was too snobbish, but now I just feel that I am ignorant.

In addition, I saw some friends asking on the Internet, is it okay if I want to take my child to live in Japan now that I am 10 years old, and so on, I feel that since I have come to Japan, it must be natural for me to become familiar with Japanese, which is still a bit one-sided.

My daughter has been living in Japan, and I feel that her Japanese test is also different from the Japanese, because we all speak Chinese at home.

Imagine that if you bring a child in the fifth or sixth grade of elementary school to Japan, the child's Japanese is not up to par, which not only affects his studies but also affects his friends, and even affects his middle school experience.

Of course, it can't be generalized, there are also children around me who came from the fourth grade and finally succeeded in getting admitted to a private school.

However, children will work harder, and it is normal to get up early and be greedy for darkness.

We also ask some Japanese people, do you plan to let your child go to a juku school, go to a private school, they shake their heads, if the child himself proposes to go to the school, then it will be sent, if not, then it will not be sent, some families pay more attention to the child's learning autonomy when will come out.

But it feels weird. It seems to be a little negative. Children are always ignorant, and it is necessary for parents to guide them earlier.

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It is a blessing to be able to roll, and it is despair to be able to roll

In recent years, I obviously feel that more Chinese have come to settle in Japan, and I can meet local sounds everywhere I go, and I have also met many Chinese mothers.

There are children who are sent to private schools from kindergarten. There are also children who send their children to English-language kindergartens and international schools after graduation.

There are also parents whose children are currently in private elementary schools, but want him to be better in private middle schools. I was pregnant for a year, suspended at home, tutored my child by the way, and sent my child to a prestigious high school.

There are also those who are full of expectations for their children, but they have never qualified. (Don't be discouraged, such a child will definitely have a good score in high school, because children and parents are holding their breath to strive for the top) I don't go to a private school, but there are not a few people who are admitted to a good high school.

More often than not, as the child's homeroom teacher said, I applied for several schools, but basically the first choice was not admitted, but the second, third, and fourth choice.

Some mothers said that the chicken boss started a few years ago, and the chicken is the second in the past few years, and it is obvious that the past few years have been more rolled than in previous years, and the mothers around them are too powerful, so that the children are difficult to pass the school, either Tsukuba, or Keio.

We should also look at the volume positively, as long as we can roll it, it means that there is still hope for rise and change, and when everyone doesn't need to roll it, and we don't have to roll it, I'm afraid it will be the real helplessness and despair.

Sometimes I think about it, such a chicken baby is not as good as the chicken itself.

Develop your career well, make more money, and never give up on yourself no matter where you are, such an attitude towards life will also affect your child's future attitude towards life.

A few years ago, a new policy came down in Tokyo, saying that from April 2024, Tokyo's high schools, private and public schools, will be counted as free tuition.

All of a sudden, public opinion is in an uproar, tuition fees are waived, and the number of applicants for private high schools is bound to be unprecedentedly full.

Chinese children in Japan usually attend private schools, and everyone is very happy when this policy is announced, and they can make up to 475,000 yen.

But as we all know, going to a private school costs more than just tuition.

According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, Reiwa 3, a survey of 2,190 survey respondents showed that the total annual cost of private junior high schools was about 1,436,353 yen (1,406,433 yen the year before), including admission fees, tuition, school travel expenses, money donated to schools, uniforms and meals, on-campus cram classes, extracurricular activities, etc.

At the major forums, the Chinese and Japanese people have voiced their voices, why is it only free in Tokyo, then when will we be free in Kanagawa.

Some people also say that this subsidy existed before, but now the restriction that 9.1 million high-income families cannot receive this subsidy has been abolished. We'll follow up on this topic later.

Well, let's talk about this today, and finally I hope that everyone's children can be admitted to the ideal school and have a bright future.